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Load Wedding (2018)
Good message and that's all!
I have watched quite a few of Nabeel Qureshi's movies and so far they've been a hit or miss. This movie shares similar features with Actor in Law, namely it is very unfocused, and it gives up well constructed plot and characters for the sake of being preachy. Being preachy is not a bad thing but when it is done at the expense of well written plot, it becomes pointless.
By being unfocused I mean it seems to have a dilemma on whether to talk about the MC's romance and what it entails, or his sister's wedding and the "Jahez". At the end it picks the latter.
Taking suicide so lightly and having a simplistic view of it is in bad taste.
Characters actions are arbitrary or they have facile reasons.
The romance element defines what generic is.
The tone shifts from melodrama to comedic relief quite frequently leaving me confused. In my opinion it would have been better if the movie kept the comedy element in its entirety and had made fun of absurd beliefs in the form of satire.
The way this movie started gave no indication of having potential and unfortunately at the end it remain true to that. I do like the message however, and there were some funny moments.
Bulbulay (2009)
Repetitive and not funny!
This show is beyond repetitive, it uses the same jokes in every episode. Someone needs to tell the writers that the same joke repeated twice is not funny, let alone using it countless times over hundreds of episodes.
Can't believe this show got popular. Even the acting is overdone to the point of cringe.
All I gotta say is,
Family Front > Bulbulay
Motorcycle Girl (2018)
A solid film
This film took a slight surrealist approach. It is inspired by David Lynch movies as shown by an obvious easter egg. Hence, logically it followed an outlandish way of revealing the main character's life through a sequence of seemingly uncorrelated events. As the movie progresses, it starts to make sense. This is clearly a good thing, though my critique is, it doesn't go far in terms of riddling the viewer because at the end, everything is answered leaving no room for 'connecting the dots'.
The cinematic direction, subtlety, background set up, use of symbolism and even sound tracks pale in comparison to a movie like Cake. But it is decent for what it is.
Cake (2018)
This is more like it!
I have been looking for an artsy, subtle and well crafted movie to come out of South Asia. This is it.
This movie is a piece of Art.
Characters are 3 dimensional.
The atmosphere is immersive.
Backgrounds are astonishing.
Acting is on point.
Realistic portrayal of family dynamics.
There is more to dialogue, the subtle cues in the background that tell the story on their own.
Good use of symbolism.
Over and above all, it's heart warming. enough said.
Now the only thing i didn't like was romeo's character. He is a cardboard and a plot device. that's the only weak point of this movie.
Actor in Law (2016)
Nice message, poor execution.
This movie raises some good issues in Pakistani society such as misogyny, minority rights, vandalism of public property, child labour etc. with its main subject of critique being media, politics and law.
I even noticed gist of Hobbes political/moral philosophy as a philosophy student myself. Hobbes asserted that the role of government is to make private interests of people to become collective interests by forcing restrictions on people. If under a government, people's private interests are in conflict with other people, that government is not doing its job properly. One example of people exploiting their private interests in the movie is vandalism of public property for the sole purpose of personal gain.
I also liked the fact that the writer studied legislation on different issues to give validity to the arguments presented in the movie.
As good as the message is, the movie just does the job on a superficial level. It's apparent that the writer only wanted to focus on the message as evident by the fact that the characters suffer from being 2 dimensional and mediocre. Lets look at the main character Shan for instance, he started off with the sole motivation of becoming an actor, yet he ends up becoming an all good and innocent moral warrior in a 'Munna Bhai' and 'PK' fashion. As unoriginal as this concept is, my main concern is that Shan's character showed no moral motivation in the entire movie. To be fair to one of the antecedents to this movie which would be PK, that had an alien with an objective/3rd party view of the human society so his motivations and actions made sense as he came to his conclusions through observation. Over here in this movie however, Shan's motivation of 'doing what's right' is entirely arbitrary. There was nothing sufficient in his character that would make him want to gain the public interest. In short, his character is lazily written.
Let's move on to the villain Mahboob. He was Shan's friend but ends up snitching on him. Being another 2 dimensional character, he shows no motivations for his actions. At the beginning he helped Shan find an acting role, why did he do that? because he was his friend, nothing more. Why did he snitch at the end? because Shan refused to give him any money. These are easy, dull and non-creative justifications for Mahmood's actions making him a poorly written antagonist.
Shan's father is just your typical Pakistani dad calling Shan a failure 24/7, conveniently leaves the country upon Shan's rise to fame. I'm still confused on the reveal that his dad never won a case in his life, in terms of what purpose it serves.
Meenu is also an unoriginal 2 dimensional character as i have seen a character like her in many other films. She got no role other then being a love interest of Shan, and to raise awareness on "sexual harassment", which to be fair, is a good role but the movie went nowhere with it as she was forced to retract her case. As soon as she found a witness, the movie went like 'that's enough of this topic, let's rush to the next!'
Now here what I liked about her character was the fact that she was a Zoroastrian. The movie endorsed a relationship between a muslim and a Parsi. This promotes minority tolerance. Though it would have been more progressive and overall better imo, to show a relationship between a Parsi man and muslim women but that would've gotten backlash since it's against the islamic scripture.
Nonetheless, the biggest flaw of the movie is the fact that Shan is conveniently able to barge in a court-room without having to identify himself, which foreshadows the main conflict and climax. in other words, the climax of the plot has a basis in implausible and conveniently written event.
Overall, a score of 6 is just me being generous because i like the issues it raises. Even though the movie's flaws outweigh its strengths.